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My Year In Pictures (Weeks 15 And 16)

Posted on April 22, 2013 by zoomyummy | Leave a comment

new granny square with circles in center

Hi friends!

I hope you are doing fine!

The past two weeks of my life have been really relaxing and nice. Here are a few moments that I snapped…

I enjoyed playing with colors to make a few of my granny squares with circles inside. Pure relax!

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Photography – Adventures With HDR

Posted on March 20, 2013 by zoomyummy | Leave a comment

colorful pinwheel hdr

Have you ever heard about HDR?

HDR stands for high dynamic range. And that, let me tell you, is a truly magical thing.

It works like this – you take a series of images with your camera, each shot with a different exposure from darkest to lightest (there’s a special setting in you camera to achieve that.)

3 exposure for pinwheel hdr

Then you open these images in a program which is able to combine the best parts of the three overexposed, underexposed and balanced shots to create a dramatic image with beautiful shadowing and highlights.

colorful pinwheel hdr

Isn’t that idea just amazing?

I love it!

What I especially adore is the contrast and detail which these pictures seem to have and which I could not really achieve before.

I came across this technique some time ago, but just recently I got myself a software which helps to make this kind of magic happen (there are quite a few in the market, I chose Photomatix; you can find some really cute examples of HDR photography on their site.)

flower in vase on tray

Me and HDR, this is just the beginning of our journey together. And I am so looking forward to that adventure!

I made a few more pictures to play with this new software thingy… here they are…

breakfast hdr

crochet owl cushions hdr

flowers on doily hdr

flower and colorful vases

crochet floor cushion in progress hdr

I will definitely let you know when I learn something new in this amazing realm of photography.

Thank you for letting me share.

Wishing you a nice day!

Love,
Petra

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Flowers For Sunday… and a slight change

Posted on March 17, 2013 by zoomyummy | Leave a comment

flowers on crochet doily

I have to tell you, this Photography Project 365 is a very interesting thing to do. So far it’s brought a lot of fun into my life, as well as learning, improving self-discipline and most importantly, a lot of joy from sharing with you, dear friends.

Thank you for your support and following!

I love this project a lot now and definitely want to continue.

But there’s this slight bit I’d like to change. What I’ve learned is that adjusting is a good and wise thing to do … and for this reason, to adjust this project to the time and focus that the other projects on my site require, I thought I could try a little change and start posting my everyday-life pictures in batches once a week. Yes, I am talking about big, colorful, happy collages of my daily little joys sent from me to you once a week. And, of course, there will be my usual cooking, crafting, photography and traveling posts in-between.

I hope this does not sound too bad…

So let’s see how it works.

Wishing you a happy happy week!

Love,
Petra

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It’s All So Quiet (Photography Project 365 – Day 17)

Posted on January 17, 2013 by zoomyummy | Leave a comment

snow and trees

(365/17)

Look what happened today!

A. LOT. OF. SNOW.

Wow!

I love a lot of snow in January. It feels just right. Also, I really like the deep quiet a snowfall brings. Have you noticed?

Greetings from the heart of Europe!

Love,
Petra